Talk:Data mining/2016

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Not a misnomer

Latest comment: 7 years ago6 comments4 people in discussion

I don't want to create OR, but the term data mining is clearly not a misnomer as described in the lead. "To mine" when used with a direct object can mean "to avail oneself of or draw useful or valuable material from" so the expression "data mining" is apt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:141:300:49e0:6d4f:e9b2:8f3c:671c (talk) 04:39, 24 July 2015‎ (UTC)

Well, the source given (high reputation textbook) says so, and we don't do OR.

Furthermore gold mining, coal mining, iron mining, ... etc. clearly demonstrate the critizised pattern why it should probably have been called "knowledge mining". --Chire (talk) 09:28, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Agreed that it is not a misnomer. The source, as listed here, has a misspelling in it, which is not promising. The comparison with iron mining is facile too. It's like saying, "It should not be called 'iron mining,' it should be called 'bridge mining from iron' because bridges are made out of iron." I am deleting the piece about misnomer unless someone can find an additional independent quote to support it as a misnomer. --GoldCoastPrior (talk) 13:55, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

@GoldCoastPrior: Seriously? That source has 25239 citations on Google scholar: [1]. That typo is not in the book. How about just looking it up, and fixing the typo? --Chire (talk) 18:54, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

I agree that it is not a misnomer. The sentence describing it as a misnomer seems to be implying that data mining should mean the creation of data. I would say that data creation should be called research. It would really help, I think, to have a section which draws a distinction between data mining and plain statistical analysis. Also, clarify data mining versus big data. I disagree that cluster analysis is an example of data mining or anything else where the point is to look at the big picture rather than any specific datum. That would be big data. As the introduction to this article states, "The overall goal of the data mining process is to extract information from a data set and transform it into an understandable structure for further use." The key word is "extract." It's called data mining because you are extracting specific desired data from a greater source. It's like extracting a specific mineral from a mine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.132.189.100 (talk) 15:48, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Well, it is not much about our opinion. One of the most important textbooks discusses this - it's a sourced, notable opinion. The argumentation is along the lines that "coal mining" refers to finding coal (in rock), "gold mining" refers to finding gold (in rock). But in "data mining", most "data" is just rock, not nuggets. So it's not about finding "data from bits", but about finding "insights from data". That is a valid point of view; but most importantly it's a sourced point of view. It does not matter if we agree... Chire (talk) 13:03, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

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